AP Notes 1-17

Question 1

Anecdote

Answer 1

Short, simple narrative of an incident, often used to make one laugh.

Question 2

Argumentation

Answer 2

Writing that attempts to prove the validity of a point of view or an idea by presenting “reasoned” arguments.

Question 3

Allegory

Answer 3

An extended narrative of an incident in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writer intends a second meaning.

Question 4

Annotation

Answer 4

Explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographic data.

Question 5

synecdoche

Answer 5

A figure of speech that a part of a whole is used to identify something (hand for sailor), The whole used for a part (The law for police), general used for specific (Thief for pickpocket), specific used for general (cutthroat for assassin), Or material used for the thing made from it (steel for sword).

Question 6

Metonymy

Answer 6

A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another one that is similar (Crown for king/queen).

Question 7

Antithesis

Answer 7

The presentation of two contrasting images (“To be or not to be…”).

Question 8

Rhetoric

Answer 8

The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially through the use of figures pf speech.

Question 9

Colloquialism

Answer 9

A word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informed writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing. (Y’all, ain’t, can’t, somethin’)

Question 10

connotation

Answer 10

Words suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a readers mind. (The opposite of denotation)

Question 11

consonance

Answer 11

Repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity. (Boot/Beat/Best/Brag<>Fulfill/Ping-Pong).

Question 12

Caricature

Answer 12

Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance or a facet of personality.

Question 13

Coherence

Answer 13

The “quality” of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea/theme or organizing principle.

Question 14

Aphorism

Answer 14

A short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life. (The early bird gets the worm).

Question 15

Apostrophe

Answer 15

Usually in poetry, but sometimes in prose: the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction.

Question 16

cacophony

Answer 16

Also referred to as a “Dissonance”…hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of “Euphony”.

Question 17

Enumeration

Answer 17

A rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step. A type of amplification or divide where the subject is further distributed into compounds or parts.